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JOHN DELAFIELD, 

of Oaklands, Seneca county, 

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 
Hon. JOHN A. KING, 

Jamaica, Queens county. 

Secretary of the Board of Trustees^ 
JOEL W. BACON, 

of Waterolo. Seneca county, 

Treasurer, 
N. B. KIDDER, 

of Geneva, Ontario county. 



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AN ACT 

TO INCORPORATE THE 

3fctD-J)ork State Qlgtiailtural College. 

5*assed April 15, !§53. 



The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate 
and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section 1. John Delafield, Henry Wager, B. P. John- 
son, William Kelly, John A. King, N. B. Kidder, Joel 
W. Bacon, William Buel, Tailmadge Delafield, Robert 
J. Swan, and such other persons as shall or may be 
associated with them for that purpose, are hereby con- 
stituted and created a body politic and corporate by 
the name, style and description of the "New- York 
State Agricultural College," and the said corporation 
shall have and enjoy all the corporate rights and privi- 
leges enjoyed by any incorporated college in the State 
of New- York, and shall be subject to the provisions 
and exercise the powers and duties contained and set 
forth in the second article of the fifteenth chapter, title 

one, of the Revised Statutes. 

§ 2. The farm and grounds belonging and attached 

to the said college, shall consist of not less than three 

hundred acres. 

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§ 3. The plan of instruction shall embrace the follow- 
ing branches of knowledge: practical and scientific 
agriculture, chemistry and its manipulations so far as 
it may be usefully connected with agriculture, mathe- 
matics and mechanics, surveying and engineering, 
geology and botany, the practical management of the 
farm, of the dairy, and of the various kinds of live 
stock ; also such other branches of knowledge as may 
be deemed useful and proper. 

§ 4. The persons named in the first section of this 
act shall be and form the first board of trustees. 

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 



The Powers and Duties of the Trustees of Colleges. 

[Revised Statutes, 4th edition, page 867.) 

The trustees of every college to which a charter shall 
be granted by the State, shall be a corporation. 

The trustees shall meet upon their own adjournment, 
and as often as they shall be summoned by their chair- 
man, or in his absence by the senior trustee, upon the 
request, in writing, of any other three trustees. 

Notice of the time and place of every such meeting- 
shall be given in a newspaper printed in the county 
where such college is situate, at least six days before 
the meeting ; and every trustee resident in such county 
shall be previously notified in writing, of the time and 
place of such meeting. 

Seniority among the trustees shall be determined 
according to the order in which they are named in the 
charter of the college ; and after all the first trustees 
shall become extinct, according to the priority of their 
election. 

The trustees shall not exceed twenty-four, nor be 
less than ten in number; and a majority of the whole 
number, shall be a quorum for the transaction of busi- 
ness. 

The trustees of every such college, besides the gene- 
ral powers and privileges of a corporation, shall have 
power : 

1. To elect by ballot, their chairman annually; 

2. Upon the death, removal out of this State, or other 
vacancy in the office of any trustee, to elect another 
in bis place by a majority of the votes of the trustees 
present ; 



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3. To declare vacant the seat of any trustee, who 
shall absent himself from live successive meetings of 
the board ; 

4. To take and hold by gift, grant or devise, any real 
or personal property, the yearly income or revenue of 
which shall not exceed the value of twenty-five thou- 
sand dollars; 

5. To sell, mortgage, let and otherwise use and dis- 
pose of such property in such manner as they shall 
deem most conducive to the interests of the college ; 

6. To direct and prescribe the course of study and 
discipline to be observed in the college ; 

7. To appoint a president of the college, who shall 
hold his office during good behavior ; 

8. To appoint such professors, trustees and other 
officers, as they shall deem necessary, who, unless 
employed under a special contract, shall hold their 
offices during the pleasure of the trustees ; 

9. To remove or suspend from office the president 
and every professor, tutor or other officer employed 
under a special contract, upon a complaint in writing, 
by any member of the board of trustees, stating the 
misbehavior in office, incapacity or immoral conduct of 
the person sought to be removed, and upon examina- 
tion and due proof of the truth of such complaint, and 
to appoint any other person in place of the president or 
other officer thus removed or suspended ; 

10. To grant such literary honors as are usually 
granted by any university, college or seminary of learn- 
ing in the United States ; and, in testimony thereof, 
to give suitable diplomas, under their seal and the 
signature of such officers of the college as they shall 
deem expedient ; 



11. To ascertain and fix the salaries of the president, 
professors, and other officers of the college ; 

12. To make all ordinances and by-laws necessary 
and proper to carry into effect the preceding powers ; 

13. Every diploma granted by such trustees shall 
entitle the possessor to all the immunities which, by 
usage or statute, are allowed to possessors of similar 
diplomas granted by any university, college or semi- 
nary of learning in the United States. 



General Powers and Privileges of Corporations. 
{Revised Statutes, page 1172, edition 4.) 

§ 1. Every corporation, as such, has power: 

1. To have succession by its corporate name for the 
period limited in its charter, and, when no period is 
limited, perpetually. 

2. To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any 
court of law or equity. 

3. To make and use a common seal, and alter the 
same at pleasure. 

4. To hold, purchase and convey such real and per- 
sonal estate as the purposes of the corporation shall 
require, not exceeding the amount limited in its 
charter. 

5. To appoint such subordinate officers and agents 
as the business of the corporation shall require, and to 
allow them a suitable compensation. 

6. To make by-laws, not inconsistent with any 
existing law, for the management of its property, the 
regulation of its affairs, and for the transfer of its 
stock. 



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§ 2. The powers enumerated in the preceding sec- 
tion shall vest in every corporation that shall hereafter 
be created, although they may not be specified in its 
charter, or in the act under which it shall be incorpo- 
rated. 

§ 3. In addition to the powers enumerated in the 
first section to this title, and to those expressly given 
in its charter, or in the act under which it is or shall 
be incorporated, no corporation shall possess or exercise 
any corporate powers, except such as shall be neces- 
sary to the exercise of the powers so enumerated and 
given. 

{From Art. 5, Chap. 16 of Ath ed. R> S.> p. 870.) 

No religious qualification or test shall be required 
from any trustee, president, principal or other officer of 
any incorporated college or academy, or as a condition 
for admission to any privilege in the same. 

No professor or tutor of any incorporated college or 
academy shall be a trustee of such college or academy. 

No president of any such college, or principal of any 
such academy, who shall be a trustee, shall have a vote 
in any case relating to his own salary or emoluments. 

No president, principal or other officer of any such 
college or academy shall be a regent of the university. 

No trustee of a college or academy shall act as a 
regent of the university, and no regent of the univer- 
sity shall act as trustee of any college or academy ; 
and if any such trustee shall be appointed a regent, or 
a regent shall be appointed a trustee, he shall elect in 
which office he will serve, and give notice of such 
election to the authority by which he shall be appointed, 
within sixty days from the time of his appointment, 
otherwise such appointment shall be void. 



Every college and academy that shall become sub- 
ject to the visitation of the regents shall make such 
returns and reports to the regents, in relation to the 
state and disposition of its property and funds, the 
number and ages of its pupils, and its system of 
instruction and discipline, as the regents shall from 
time to time require. 

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed 
to alter, or in any manner affect any charter heretofore 
granted by the Legislature, or by the regents of the 
university to any college or academy. 

(Session Laws of 1840, Chap. 318, passed May 14, 1840.) 

§ 1. Real and personal property may be granted and 
conveyed to any incorporated college or other literary 
incorporated institutions in this State, to be held in 
trust for either of the following purposes : 

1. To establish and maintain an observatory; 

2. To found and maintain professorships and scholar- 
ships ; 

3. To provide and keep in repair a place for the 
burial of the dead ; 

4. For any other specific purposes comprehended* in 
the general objects authorised by their respective 
charters. (See the act.) 

Session Laws of 1848. Extract from an act passed April 

11, 1848. 

§ 2. There shall be paid from the Treasury, on the 
warrant of the Comptroller, out of the revenue of the 
Literature Fund, to the several academies and schools 
embraced in the apportionment that may be made by 
the Regents of the University, the sum of fifteen thou- 
sand dollars, and the further sum of twenty-five thou- 



sand dollars^ from the income of the United States 
Deposit Fund, being in all forty thousand dollars, in 
each of the years 1849 and 1850. Such apportionment 
to be made by the Regents, among the said academies 
and seminaries of learning throughout the State, in pro- 
portion to the number of each who shall have pursued 
the requisite studies to entitle them to share in said 
distribution. 

(The above appropriation was continued for the year 
1851, by section 1 of Session Laws, 1849, chapter 301, 
and Session Laws, 1852, p. 646.) 



Ordinances. 

First. The government and management of the col- 
lege and farm, shall be under the direction and con- 
trol of the President of the corporation, who shall be 
responsible to the trustees for the general management 
and well being of every department : all matters of 
discipline and arrangement shall be under the control 
of the president, and all professors, teachers, officers, 
pupils and other persons employed shall be under his 
supervision and direction. 

Second. Professors shall be appointed by the board of 
trustees to fill such departments as the trustees may 
deem expedient. The professors shall, in conjunction 
with the president, superintend vigilantly, the moral 
conduct, industry and progress of each student, and 
other person employed in the college or on the farm. 
The professors shall at the close of every month report 
to the president the condition of their respective 
classes, in such form as the president may from time 
to time require. 



Third. A chairman and secretary shall be elected 
annually to perform such duties as the act of incorpo- 
ration or the action of the board may require. 

Fourth. A treasurer shall be elected by the trustees. 
It shall be the duty of the treasurer to hold and care- 
fully preserve all bills, notes, bonds and mortgages, or 
other evidences of debt, or obligations or securities for 
personal or real estate belonging to or held by the 
college ; he shall receive and deposit in bank, all 
moneys received from any source for account of the 
by college. He shall pay all drafts or orders on him made 
by the chairman of the Finance Committee, which drafts 
shall always be drawn payable to the order of the said 
treasurer, and be specially endorsed to the party entitled 
to receive the amount expressed in such draft or order ; 
he shall prepare and present to the president on the first 
day of every month, a full and detailed statement of 
all moneys received and paid by him for or on account 
of the New- York State Agricultural College, and exhi- 
biting the true balance of cash on the said last day of 
each month. 

Fifth. A finance committee consisting of three mem- 
bers shall be annually elected by the Board, whose 
duty it- shall be to audit all accounts against the 
College, and to invest upon approved securities any 
surplus money belonging to the institution, and gene- 
rally to supervise its finances. 

Sixth. On or before the tenth day of January in each 
year, a report shall be prepared by the trustees, stating 
their proceedings, operations and expenditures, and 
including the last day of December then passed : the 
management of the farm, progress of the students ; al- 

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so setting forth suggestions for the advancement and 
improvement of the institution, if deemed necessary. 

Capital Stock. 

The capital stock of the New- York State Agricultu- 
ral College shall be sixty thousand dollars, with liberty 
to increase the same whenever, and as often as the 
trustees may deem necessary for the advantage of 
the corporation; The said stock shall de divided into 
shares of fifty dollars each, and shall be transferable 
in such manner as the board of trustees may direct. 

The said corporation may commence operations 
when forty thousand dollars shall have been sub- 
scribed, and fifty per cent on each share subscribed 
for shall have been paid in. 

The trustees shall appoint commissioners to receive 
subscriptions for said capital stock at such times and 
under such rules as they shall prescribe. 

Instruction. 

The chief object of the corporation is to provide a 
system of instruction essential and practically useful 
to the agricultural interests of the State — to combine 
theory with practice — to afford wholesome discipline 
to the mind — accumulation of knowledge and habits 
of labor and industry. 

The farm connected with the college, containing not 
less than three hundred acres of varied soil, will be 
managed with a view to the results of a mixed hus- 
bandry, varied as the interests of the farm may require. 

The year shall be divided into two sessions. The 
first session shall commence on the first Monday of 
April and continue to the first day of October. This 
period embraces the most important practical field 



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operations, and will necessarily be occupied in the 
practice of the manual operations of husbandry, afford- 
ing to the pupil a knowledge of the various depart- 
ments of the farm, their uses and management. 

The second session shall commence on the first 
Monday in November and continue to the first day of 
March following. During this session lectures on the 
various sciences connected with agriculture will be 
given. The chemical laboratory will be in operation. 

The course of instruction shall continue for three 
consecutive years, at the expiration of which, and 
upon the recommendation of the president and profes- 
sors of the said college the trustees may confer a cer- 
tificate or diploma as is authorised by the tenth and 
thirteenth sections of the Revised Statutes, set forth on 
page 868 of vol. 1, 4th edition, sections 45 and 46, on 
all students who have completed the full course of three 
years, and received the recommendation above named. 

The President or a Professor will deliver a course of 
lectures, during the Winter session, on the History and 
general purposes of agriculture, and its improvements ; 
also, a course of lectures on law, as connected with 
the agricultural interests, &c. 

The Mathematical Professor will instruct the classes 
in arithmetic, algebra as far as simple equations, the 
first three books of Euclid, practical surveying and en- 
gineering ; also, in natural philosophy, embracing the 
phenomena of force and motion, sound, light and heat, 
mechanical powers and their application, the available 
power of steam, water, wind, animals and man, ap- 
plied ; the principles applied in the make and shape of 
farm implements and instruments ; also, in meteorol- 
ogy, electricity, &c. He will instruct the classes in a 



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system of farm accounts, inculcating precision, me- 
thod and accuracy. 

The Chemical Professor will instruct the classes in 
Inorganic chemistry, the principles of the science, its di- 
visions, strongly indicating all such as bear upon agri- 
culture or have any relation to the soil and the crops. 
Organic chemistry, explaining the substances of vegeta- 
ble origin and animal origin, the germination and veg- 
etation of plants, their food, management, application 
of food or manures and means for their production, 
with economy ; the analysis of simple and complex 
substances, applying the same to the analysis of soils, 
manures and farm products, and other subjects imme- 
diately useful to the practical farmer. He shall ana- 
lyse all matters that may be required or indicated by 
the President. 

The Professor of Natural History shall instruct the 
classes in Geology, classification of rocks, their groups 
and formation, the soils derived from them, changes 
and upheavals of the earth's surface, effects on climate, 
effects of drifts, forming hills and vallies, agricultural 
peculiarities dependent thereon. He will also instruct 
the classes in Botany, illustrating the character and na~ 
ture of agricultural plants, weeds, edible vegetables, 
examination of seeds, their germination, growth and 
reproduction ; the anatomy and functions of plants, 
their values to the farmer for economic purposes, &c, 
&c. He will also instruct the classes in Zoology, its 
general principles, divisions and subdivisions, dwelling 
more particularly on the third group or articulata, and 
fourth class ; Insects, their structure, changes and ha- 
bits; the injuries .inflicted on vegetation, &c, &c. 

The Professor of Practical Agriculture shall instruct 
the classes in all the various field operations ; in the 
economical application of the labor of man, horse and 



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steam power; the value, suitability and application of 
various manures and fertilizers; the breeding 1 , rearing, 
feeding and fattening of live stock; the management 
of the dairy ; the arrangement, construction and uses 
of farm buildings ; the action and practical uses of all 
implements, machinery and tools employed in agricul- 
ture ; the system of drainage, &c, &c. 

As soon as practicable, shall be added a Professorship 
of Veterinary Practice. The Professor shall instruct the 
classes in the divisions of the animal kingdom, their 
structure, character and habits; dwelling particularly 
on the anatomy of farm animals, peculiarities of con- 
struction and the functions of the various parts and 
organs ; the various diseases incident to domestic ani- 
mals, their general causes, mode of attack and treat- 
ment; the treatment and management of all stock 
and stable management; the business and duties of 
the forge, connected with the comfort and greater use- 
fulness of animals, &c. 

Admission. 

Each candidate for admission into the New- York 
State Agricultural College must be able to read and 
write the English language well, to perform with fa- 
cility and accuracy the various operations of the four 
ground rules of arithmetic. 

An acquaintance with the branches of science taught 
at the academies and colleges of our country will prove 
a great advantage to the student on entering the Agri- 
cultural College. 

No student shall be admitted under sixteen years 
of age. 

No student shall be admitted unless he has passed a 
satisfactory examination and given evidence that his 
moral conduct is in like manner satisfactory. 



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Each student on his admission into the college shall 
subscribe an engagement in the following form : 

" I (A. B.), now aged years and months, 

do hereby promise and agree, with the consent of my 
parents or proper guardian, that I will faithfully ob- 
serve and conform to all the rules, regulations and 
orders of the New- York State Agricultural College. 
Witness my signature this day of 1S5 . 

[ Signature of the student.] 
" Witness, 

[The parent or guardian.] 

Charges. 

Until endowments or State patronage shall permit a 
more free distribution of knowledge, at a less cost, the 
charge for instruction, with board and lodging, lights, 
fuel and washing, will be three hundred dollars per 
annum, one-half of which sum shall be regularly and 
punctually paid, semi-annually, in advance. 

Vacations. 

There shall be two vacations in each year — one in 
March the other in October ; also, a recess of ten days 
at the period of Christmas and the new-year. 

Discipline. 

In the administration and management of the col- 
lege and farm, order and system should prevail, and a 
rigid compliance with every ordinance, rule and regu- 
lation be required and granted. Decorum must, of 
necessity, guide every inmate of the institution. 

A careful and close observance of the following 
rules and regulations, and all others which may from 
time to time be issued, will uphold the character and 
dignity of the corporation : 



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The punishments to which a student shall be liabl 
are comprised in the following divisions : 
First. — 1. Privation of recreation: 

2. Extra duties: 

3. Reprimands: 

4. Temporary suspension. 

Second. — 1. Dismission, with the privilege of resign- 
ing: 
2. Public dismission. 

The first class of punishments may be inflicted by 
the president, or with his approbation. The second 
class of punishments may be inflicted only in virtue of 
a decision of the trustees convened for the examination 
of the case. 

As obedience and subordination are essential to the 
welfare of the college, and to the comforts of all con- 
nected with the institution, the students, and every 
person employed by the corporation, will be careful to 
obey the president, professors and teachers, or other 
officers. Any refractory or disrespectful conduct will 
be punished according to the degree of the offence. 

No student shall bring, or cause to be brought with- 
in the limits of the college property, nor shall he have 
in his room, or otherwise in his possession or control, 
any intoxicating drinks, on pain of being dismissed. 

No games with cards, nor any kind of gambling, 
shall be permitted within the college or the farm boun- 
daries. 

No student shall use tobacco in any way, within 
the college buildings, farm yards, rick yards, hay and 
straw yards, or within two hundred feet of any or either 
such buildings or yards. 



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Any student or person connected with the college, 
who shall wantonly or carelessly damage or destroy 
any property of or belonging to the college, shall make 
good the cost of repairing and replacing such damage 
or destruction, and be otherwise punished, according 
to the nature of the offence. 

No student shall be absent from his room after nine 
o'clock p. m. ; neither shall any student be absent from 
the farm at any time without leave from the president; 
if the offence is repeated a second time, notice shall be 
given to the parent or guardian, and upon the next 
offence the punishment may be dismissal from the 
institution. 

Any student who shall be guilty of an immoral act, 
shall be dismissed from the college, or otherwise pun- 
ished, as the board may order. 

No profane or indecent language or oaths shall be 
tolerated, and every offence under this rule shall be 
punished in the discretion of the president. 

It is expected by the trustees and officers of the in- 
stitution, that every person connected with the college 
will carefully abstain from all irregular conduct, that 
the honor and high character of the college may be 
protected and preserved by a proper appreciation of 
propriety and decorum, which will always command 
the esteem of every upright citizen. 

The president shall keep a register of all delinquen- 
cies and punishments which may occur within the 
limits of the college property, and shall report the same 
annually to the board of trustees. 

If any student shall consider himself aggrieved or 
wronged by an officer or by a fellow-student, he shall 
present a complaint to the president, who is hereby 



Required to examine into the said complaint, and take 
measures for redressing the wrong complained of. 

Should the complaining party be refused redress, he 
may appeal to the board of trustees for relief. No al- 
tercation or strife between any of the students shall be 
tolerated, nor any breach of social intercourse. Every 
offending person shall be punished, and every aggriev- 
ed or injured person shall be protected in his rights and 
honor. 

The strictest attention to study shall be given by 
students ; likewise to all other duties. 

No debts shall be contracted by any of the students, 
with any person or persons, while such student is con- 
nected with the college. 

Professors and teachers shall be held accountable for 
the regular and orderly conduct of their respective 
classes, while under their instruction, and shall report 
to the President every violation of the college rules and 
regulations within his knowledge or observation. 

Each professor at the head of a separate depart- 
ment shall have charge of and be accountable for the 
instruments, apparatus and other property, supplied for 
the use of his department ; causing them severally to 
be kept in perfect order, and ready for- Use at all times. 
Professors and teachers shall devote themselves during 
each session to instruction and such appropriate duties 
as the President may direct, and the good of the insti- 
tution may require. 

Interior Police Regulations. 
Hours for daily duties : 

Every student shall rise at 5 o'clock A. M., from the 
first of April to the 30th of October and at 6 o'clock 
A. M. for the remainder of the year. The signal for 

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breakfast shall be given at half past five A. M., from 
1st. April to 30th October, and at half past six A. M., 
for the remainder of the year. 

The signal for dinner shall be given at meridian, 
throughout the year. 

The signal for supper shall be given at five o'clock 
P. M., from 1st April to 30th Oct., and at six o'clock for 
the remainder of the year. 

All lights shall be extinguished in the students' 
rooms at or before 10 o'clock throughout the year. 

The hours for study, labor, and for the other duties, 
will be regulated and declared by the President. 

Students shall carefully attend to the disposition of 
their clothing in their respective rooms, in drawers, clo- 
sets or trunks : this is to be done daily when rising from 
bed. They shall clean their candlestick or lamp, 
arrange neatly their bed and bedding, and place their 
rooms respectively in neat order for the daily inspec- 
tion of the president or his assistant : this duty must 
be completed before the hour of breakfast. 

The laundress shall take clothes for necessary cleails- 
ing, every Sunday and Thursday morning, before the 
hour of breakfast. 

No student shall throw water or dirt from his window 
at any time. 

No person resident on the college premises shall use 
any musical instrument upon Sunday) nor in study 
hours, on any other day. 

Every morning, during the breakfast hour, a proper 
person shall visit the students' rooms, sweep and 
cleanse them from dust, removing all the collected 
dirt to such place as shall be allotted therefor. When 
fires are used the same person shall see that they are 



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safe during the absence of the occupants of rooms ; and 
at least once in every week shall wash the floor of each 
room, and all such wood- work as may need cleansing, 
and whatever else is necessary to preserve cleanliness 
and order. 

No noise or loud talking shall be made within any 
buildings or erections of the college, nor any scuffling 
or improper or irregular conduct. 

No person shall enter the college buildings during 
the hours of study, except on duty; no student shall 
introduce a visitor during study hours on any pretence 
whatever. 

The Sick, 
Students requiring medical aid shall report them- 
selves to the president, who shall, when necessary, or 
required by the students, send for the physician or sur- 
geon appointed by the trustees to attend and prescribe 
for such as may require it. None but experienced, 
well educated physicians and surgeons holding diplo- 
mas from well established medical colleges shall hold 
the appointment above named. 

College Commons. 

One of the professors shall act as inspector of the 
commons, and report to the president all deficiencies 
in the fare, and every infraction of the mess rules. 

The inspector will preserve order and a rigid obser- 
vance of rules and decorum at the hours of repast. 
He shall appoint one or more carvers, as may be ne- 
cessary, who shall aid the inspector in maintaining 
order and decorum, and shall report all violations of 
the same. 

When the signals are made for breakfast, dinner and 
supper, the students shall assemble in classes or divi- 



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sions near the mess room. Each class or division shall 
proceed in order, two and two, to their respective tables 
and each student shall uniformly occupy the same seat. 
Quiet and order must prevail at all the meals, and af- 
ter a sufficient time for full refreshment, the students 
shall rise together and depart from the hall in the same 
order as they entered. 

If any student shall consider any article of fare to 
be spoiled or unfit for use, he may report the fact to the 
inspector, who shall state the same to the president. 

No society or association, or combination shall be 
permitted or organized among the students unless 
authorised by the president. 

Library. 

A member of the college faculty or a student shall 
be appointed librarian, to act under such regulations as 
the president shall prescribe. 

The librarian shall be accountable for the books or 
other property belonging to the library department. 
He shall, therefore, deny admittance to all persons 
except at such times and under such circumstances as 
he may deem necessary for the protection of the above- 
named property. 

The librarian shall attend at the library for the pur- 
pose of receiving and delivering books at such times 
as the president shall prescribe. 

No book shall be taken from the library without the 
knowledge and presence of the librarian. 

No person except members of the institution and its 
officers shall be allowed to draw books from the library, 
and for every book drawn a receipt shall be given, 



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No book shall be detained from the library more than 
fourteen days. 

All persons who draw books from the library shall 
be responsible for the damages done to them, to be 
estimated by the librarian or other person appointed by 
the president. 

All. books drawn from the library shall be returned 
on or before the first day of March and on or before 
the first day of October in each year, that the librarian 
may report the condition of the library. 

It is recommended that every student shall keep 
himself supplied with the following articles : 
1 Great coat of blue cloth. 

1 Dress coat, vest and trousers. 

2 Blue trousers for winter. 

6 Trousers for summer, white. 

2 Blue working jackets for winter. 

4 White working jackets for summer. 

1 Blue cloth cap, 1 glazed cap, 1 dress hat. 

3 Black cravats or stocks. 

2 Pairs of boots, 1 pair of shoes. 

7 Shirts, 7 pairs of winter stockings, 7 pairs sum- 

mer stockings. 
6 Pocket handkerchiefs, 1 canvass 'clothes bag. 



